[Sca-cooks] Clotted Cream

[Micheal]

      Recipes, good ideas, date not found within as you already suggested. 
It only took 9 smacks in the head to learn read Stefans files first aha 
before asking.
      Ah well there goes another thread I will wait until you and Bear are 
through debating Quinces Strawberries, honey, sugar , and whatever. Then I 
will have to ask about clotted cream again in about a week.
 Laters
         Cealian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Clotted Cream


> Bear suggested:
> >>>
> Here, this might give you some ideas:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/news_features/2004/tavistock_cream_tea.shtml
> <<<
>
> Hmmm. The article keeps mentioning "Devon cream tea". What's the 
> connection between clotted cream and tea? or "cream tea"?
>
> The article also mentions "the monks fed them with bread, clotted  cream 
> and strawberry preserves.". Huh? The time for this was given as  roughly 
> 11th Century. Strawberries? In our earlier discussions I  thought the only 
> strawberries were from the Alps and they were much  smaller than today's 
> hybrid strawberries. The Alps are quite a  distance from Tavistock. And 
> how would they have been preserved?  Honey? That's too early for sugar and 
> other info tends to point to  quince as the first fruit preserves.
>
> And even disregarding the above, how do they get from "bread, clotted 
> cream and strawberry preserves" to a clotted cream with strawberries 
> mixed in? Or is this really meant as clotted cream served with  strawberry 
> preserves at something like tea-time?
>
> We have discussed clotted cream before and similar products. I don't 
> think we got into origins, but this file may have some info on making 
> such clotted creams:
> clotted-cream-msg (36K) 12/15/04    Clotted cream products.  Devonshire 
> cream.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/clotted-cream-msg.html
> dairy-prod-msg   (104K)  1/23/05    Dairy products. milk, butter,  curds, 
> cream.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/dairy-prod-msg.html
>
> Stefan
>
>> Greetings
>> How old is Clotted cream , would it have been around 600 in Northern
>> Europe?
>> Da
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